Swimming

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Shannon Doherty (Brooklyn, N.Y./Churchill) opened her senior campaign with two individual event victories as the St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) women's swimming team opened their 2018-19 season and the Coach Matt Rogers era with a third-place finish at the Skyline Sprints meet hosted by Mount Saint Mary College on Saturday.

The host Knights (249 points) won the overall meet, followed by SJC Long Island (136 points), the Bears (90 points), and Old Westbury (5 points).

SJC Highlights

Doherty won the 50-yard freestyle (27.22) and the 50-yard butterfly (30.92, career best), and placed fifth in the 200-yard freestyle (2:27.61). Also helping the 400-yard medley relay squad to a third-place finish, the senior accounted for 29 of the Bears' 90 points.

Junior Jessica Gnad (Brooklyn, N.Y./Leon M. Goldstein) placed in all three of her individual events, highlighted by a second-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:26.09).